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We address the boundary value problem for the ellipsoidal BGK model of the Boltzmann equation posed in a bounded interval. The existence of a unique mild solution is established under the assumption that the inflow boundary data does not…
We consider two models for a two component gas mixture with translational and internal energy degrees of freedom described by a BGK approximation assuming that the number of particles of each species remains constant. The two species are…
The ellipsoidal BGK model was introduced in \cite{Ho} to fit the correct Prandtl number in the Navier-Stokes approximation of the classical BGK model. In the paper we establish the global existence of mild solutions to the Cauchy problem on…
We consider the global existence and asymptotic behavior of classical solutions to the ellipsoidal BGK model for polyatomic molecules when the initial data starts sufficiently close to a global polyatomic Maxwellian. We observe that the…
Recently, a novel relativistic polyatomic BGK model was suggested by Pennisi and Ruggeri [J. of Phys. Conf. Series, 1035, (2018)] to overcome drawbacks of the Anderson-Witting model and Marle model.In this paper, we prove the unique…
We propose an extension of the Ellipsoidal-Statistical BGK model to account for discrete levels of vibrational energy in a rarefied polyatomic gas. This model satisfies an H-theorem and contains parameters that allow to fit almost arbitrary…
We establish global existence of mild solutions to the BGK model proposed by Bouchut [J. Stat. Phys., 95, (1999), 113--170] under the minimal assumption of finite kinetic entropy initial data. Moreover we rigorously derive a kinetic entropy…
In the paper we discuss possible approaches to the problem of the rigorous derivation of quantum kinetic equations from underlying many-particle dynamics. For the description of a many-particle evolution we construct solutions of the Cauchy…
Kinetic models for polyatomic gases have two temperatures for the two different types of degrees of freedom, the translational and the internal energy degrees of freedom. Therefore, in the case of BGK models one expects two types of…
In this paper, we consider a BGK-type kinetic model relaxing to the isentropic gas dynamics in the hydrodynamic limit. We introduce a linearization of the equation around the global equilibrium. Then we prove the global existence of…
We develop a rigorous formalism for the description of the kinetic evolution of many-particle systems with the dissipative interaction. The relationships of the evolution of a hard sphere system with inelastic collisions described within…
This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…
We consider the socalled Bathnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, an approximation of the Boltzmann equation, describing the time evolution of a single momoatomic rarefied gas and satisfying the same two main properties (conservation properties…
We consider kinetic models for a multi component gas mixture without chemical reactions. In the literature, one can find two types of BGK models in order to describe gas mixtures. One type has a sum of BGK type interaction terms in the…
Kinetic models of polyatomic gas typically account for the internal degrees of freedom at the level of the two-particle distribution function. However, close to the hydrodynamic limit, the internal (rotational) degrees of freedom tend to be…
In the present manuscript we consider the Boltzmann equation that models a polyatomic gas by introducing one additional continuous variable, referred to as microscopic internal energy. We establish existence and uniqueness theory in the…
From a unified vision of vector valued solutions in weighted Banach spaces, this manuscript establishes the existence and uniqueness for space homogeneous Boltzmann bi-linear systems with conservative collisional forms arising in complex…
The BGK model is a relaxation-time approximation of the celebrated Boltzmann equation, and the Marle model is a direct extension of the BGK model in a relativistic framework. In this paper, we introduce the Marle model for polyatomic gases…
We propose a BGK-type kinetic model for relativistic reactive gas mixtures. This model serves as a computationally tractable yet physically consistent alternative to the corresponding Boltzmann equation. The relaxation operator is…
We establish the global-in-time existence of weak solutions to a variant of the BGK model proposed by Bouchut [J. Stat. Phys., 95, (1999), 113--170] which leads to the barotropic Euler equations in the hydrodynamic limit. Our existence…